Education

I received the Master's degree in Hydraulic Engineering in May 2006 from Politecnico di Torino, Italy and the Ph.D. degree in Water and Land Management in March 2010 also from Politecnico di Torino, with a dissertation entitled “Regional meso-scale habitat models for environmental flows assessment”.

Research activities

My main research interests has been focused on a large range of disciplines, including theoretical and applied research in the field of fluvial hydraulics, hydrology, aquatic ecology and biology, sediment transport. Since I got the PhD in 2007, I worked as post-doctoral fellow in Italy, Spain and UK. From 2011 to 2013, I held a Marie Curie Fellowship hosted by the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (UPV, Spain) in the framework of the HolRiverMed project (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF-275577). I am currently based at Politecnico di Torino working as Associate Professor at the Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering (DIATI). In the last ten years I have collaborated in several research projects framed in different European countries (Italy, Spain, UK, Latvia, Sweden) as well as in Latin America, Asia and Africa to study diverse aspects of river restoration, conservation of aquatic ecosystems and water resources management. I also had an active role in projects focused on hydropower production, evaluating the impacts of flow regulation on the aquatic community and assessing the effectiveness of different river restoration measures.